Darktable 3.0.0 RC0 is available

The Darktable project has made available a release candidate build of their upcoming version 3 release.

Darktable is a free and open source photography toolkit that handles image management and organisation, RAW processing and editing, tethered shooting support and more. It's one of the best open source and free alternatives to Adobe Lightroom and it runs on all the major computer platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows).

Darktables image organization tool : The Lighttable

This RC0 release includes:

A full rework of the GUI. The application can now be themed using CSS styling and comes with a number of themes as standard including some dark and some light variations.

A new timeline view has been introduced in the image catalog.

A new module for handling 3D LUT transformations.

There are many more changes, improvements and bugfixes which you can read about on the release announcement post.

Darktables develop module for doing RAW processing

Please keep in mind that this is a release candidate version and may not be stable. It is meant for testing. If you want something stable then be sure to download the stable version. If you're keen to test out what's coming up for the version 3 release though then you can download the RC0 version from here.

Pictures seen in the screenshots above are from Pixabay.

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